FOERSTER'S NEW POST

STATE PRESIDENT

REGIME UNDER HITLER

OUSTING THE POLES

NAZIS "ACTING BY RIGHT"

(Ry Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright.)

LONDON, August 24

A message from Berlin states that the appointment of Herr Foerster as State President of Danzig was made effective from yesterday. It was interpreted by the Government spokesman as "the establishment of an authoritarian regime under Herr Hitler."

From Danzig it is reported that the British Consul left early this morning.

The Polish-German negotiations designed to settle the Customs problem have been broken off.

A decree places the Danzig Gestapo under the direction of the President of the Senate, as a result of which it becomes a separate organisation. The first determined Nazi move to oust the Poles from Danzig is indicated by a Warsaw communique reporting that the Danzig secret police have arrested a number of Polish railway officials in the past 24 hours and have also begun largescale arrests of Polish civilians.

The police at Danzig first, of all superseded the. Polish Customs officers at Zoppot and Oliva. They are examining passports and baggage, ignoring .the fact that the railways are legally under the control of Poland. When Polish officials protested the Nazis touched their revolvers and replied. "We act by right." A message from Warsaw states that it is officially stated that the appointment of Herr Foerster is a violation of the Statute of Danzig, the execution of which was guaranteed by the three-Power Committee of trie League—England. France, and Sweden.

The Danzig "Vorposten" says that the police confiscated a freight van containing munitions, steel helmets, gas masks, land mines, and machinegun parts, and arrested several persons and charged them with smuggling arms for the Polish minority.